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Japan’s newest (and craziest) energy drinks are energy cards you drink from【Pics】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 26, 2026 - Tweet
Creators team up with Street Fighter franchise, say speedy energy delivery is great for gamers and students.
- Japan
- (cool • crazy • drinks • energy drinks • Street Fighter • Street Fighter 6 • video games • weird)
Japan has a new energy drink designed to pair with one of its favorite instant noodle brands
- Master Blaster
Jul 12, 2025
Get in the U.F.O. ZONe and brace yourself.
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • drinks • energy drinks • instant noodles • Nissin • Noodles • SNJO • taste test • UFO • weird • yakisoba • Yakisoba U.F.O. • ZONe)
Strongest-ever Dodekamin energy drink approved by Japan’s Home Economics Dragon
- Master Blaster
Jul 10, 2025
Lourd Leger likes it! He really likes it!
- Japan
- (Dodekamin • dragons • drinks • energy drinks • home economics • Home Economics Dragon • Kateika no Dragon • Lourd Leger • the strongest I even thought of)
Japan’s new energy drink feels like getting slapped in the face by an anime girl
- Casey Baseel
Jul 15, 2023
A slap in the face to Steins;Gate otaku, but in the best possible way.
- Japan
- (anime • crazy • drinks • energy drinks • funny • otaku • Steins Gate • Steins;Gate • video games • weird)
With entrance exams looming, “ads that only students can see” appear in Tokyo train stations
- Casey Baseel
Dec 8, 2022
To the naked eye, these ads look like gibberish, but students cramming for entrance exams can see through the mystery.
- Japan
- (ads • clever • energy drinks • entrance exams • stations • students • Zone Energy)
Godzilla Energy drink is here, looks like a beam of Shin Godzilla’s atomic breath【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
May 14, 2021
Because really, when was the last time you heard Godzilla complain about being tired?
- Japan
- (COK • drinks • energy drinks • Godzilla • kaiju • SNJO • taste test)
Power up like Godzilla with new limited-edition Godzilla Energy Drink
- Dale Roll
May 1, 2021
King of the Monsters sets out to become King of the Energy Drinks too.
- Japan
- (COK • drinks • energy drinks • Godzilla • Godzilla vs. Kong • kaiju • movies • vending machine)
We seize the day with new vegan red bean paste energy drink【Taste Test】
- Ingrid Tsai
Mar 15, 2021
ENEEEEEEEERGYYYYYYY!
- Japan
- (Ahiru Neko • anko • COK • energy drinks • food • Go Hattori • red bean • red bean paste • SNJO • sweets • vegan)
“The hell with sound judgement” says Red Bull in ad, but Japanese people don’t seem to agree
- Casey Baseel
Jan 14, 2021
Energy drink maker gets edgy in Coming of Age Day message, but some people think they need to grow up.
- Japan
- (ads • Coming of Age Day • controversy • energy drinks • Red Bull • Seijin no Hi • society)
Energy Milk from Japan is the new way to power up your day
- Oona McGee
Oct 15, 2020
Move aside, energy drinks, there’s a new mother in town.
- Japan
- (BOSS • canned drinks • COK • Don Quijote • drinks • energy drinks • marketing • milk • SNJO • Suntory • taste test)
Japanese Internet mythbusting: Can a corn dog soaking in energy drink charge a smartphone?
- Master Blaster
Mar 15, 2019
It’s a SoraScience experiment as we test out a piece of viral Internet trivia from Japan.
- Japan
- (American dog • charger • COK • corn dog • energy drinks • experiment • funny • iPhone • monster • mythbusting • science • Smartphones • SNO • SoraScience)
Japan’s 100 yen stores have canned energy drink cocktails for under a buck, so we tried one
- Casey Baseel
Jan 16, 2018
Truly, there is nothing you can’t find at Japan’s 100 yen stores.
- Japan
- (100 yen shops • 100-yen stores • alcohol • chi-hi • cocktails • drinks • energy drinks • Lawson Store 100)
Japanese ninja, samurai and courtesans star in new Red Bull ad set in the Edo period 【Video】
- Oona McGee
Sep 18, 2017
Travel back in time to feudal Japan with an epic new clip featuring music by the Yoshida Brothers.
- Japan, USA
- (ads • commercials • Edo • Edo Wonderland • energy drinks • freerunning • Japanese commercials • Jason Paul • Ninja • Parkour • Red Bull • samurai • travel • Yoshida Brothers)
Energy drinks for elementary school kids? Japanese Twitter users upset over product’s marketing
- Casey Baseel
Sep 9, 2016
Being tired is no excuse to stop studying, packaging implies.
- Japan
- (crazy • education • energy drinks • entrance exams • kids • society • weird)
Sailor Moon grows up and gets a corporate job in new commercial 【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Mar 16, 2016
Trades the tiara for a blazer, and also seems to have acquired a punishing overtime schedule and some passive-aggressive friends.
- Anime & Manga, Food & Drink, Japan
- (anime • drinks • energy drinks • manga • Sailor Moon • video)
How to create an anime-style magic circle with one simple item from the grocery store
- Casey Baseel
Feb 11, 2016
No chicken sacrifice required for this mystic ritual.
- Japan
- (anime • cool • energy drinks • Fullmetal Alchemist • funny • magic circle)
New sakura-flavoured Red Bull to be released in Japan in time for cherry blossom season
- Oona McGee
Jan 6, 2016
Say hello to the world’s first sakura-flavoured energy drink from Red Bull.
- Japan
- (cherry blossoms • energy drinks • hanami • Japan • limited edition • Red Bull • sakura • seasonal drinks)
Would you care for a sip of my “Princess Urine” energy drink?
- Audrey Akcasu
Apr 2, 2015
April Fools’ Day has really taken off in Japan over the past few years, with major companies getting in on the action too. One of our Japanese writers, the one and only Mr. Sato, sifted through the Internet to find products worthy of his time. That is how he came across the “Princess Urine” drink. You better believe that he bought it, examined it and took some hearty gulps, all for our entertainment, of course.
- Japan
- (April Fools' Day • drinks • energy drinks • gross • weird)
Wonda Power Blend Coffee packs the “perfect” heart-jolting punch, our energy expert says!
- Scott R Dixon
Oct 22, 2013
We here at RocketNews24 know that time is money and sometimes you need more than 24 hours in a day. Until we figure out how to manipulate time, we will be relying on our energy drink expert, Energy Man, to find out which beverage gives us the most bang for our sleep-deprived buck. Energy Man downs at least one or two (sometimes four, he admits) of these stimulant-laden drinks a day and wants to share with us his new favorite drink to wake us all up.
Energy Man recently saw a new drink on the market that he had to try. Being a connoisseur of these jolting beverages, Energy Man wondered if the world needed Wonda Power Blend Coffee in the already crowded energy drink market. Click the link to read why our Energy Man found himself saying “bravo!” to the new coffee drink.
- Japan
- (Caffeine • coffee • energy drinks • review)
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